MBA for school prestige

I am in Europe at a semi target but only locally, does it make sense to work at MBB or ER (but at smaller local banks) and then do MBA to hopefully land a HF job?

My concern is that without the MBA i wont get looks from HF even with SS ER experience, because of the non target school

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Yeah it is for the chip, but if you guarantee that HF dont care that much (even citadel, millennium… and not only small scrappy ones) then i will live with the chip. But yes it is the chip

 

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